Education:

 

o PhD in Automation and Production          2011

Université Grenoble Alpes,

Doctoral School of Electronics, Electrical Energy, Automatic Control and Signal Processing (EEATS),

GIPSA-Lab (Grenoble Images, Speech, Signal and Control Lab),

Department of Control Systems, Grenoble, France.

Thesis title: Analysis and control of a tunnelling current measurement system

Thesis supervisors: Prof. Alina Voda and Prof. Gildas Besancon 

 

o Masters in Automation and Production          2007

Grenoble INP (Grenoble Institute of Technology),

Graduate School of Electronics, Electrical Energy, Automatic Control and Signal Processing (EEATS),

Grenoble, France.

Thesis title: Dynamic modelling and control of a system for nanoscale measurement

Thesis supervisors: Prof. Alina Voda and Prof. Gildas Besancon 

 

o Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics          2004

NED University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi, Pakistan.

(Degree achieved with Distinction)

 

Research Interests:

Control Systems; Micro / Nanotechnology; MEMS / NEMS; Mechatronics; Artificial Intelligence.

 

Professional Experience:

 

o Associate Professor          2022 – Present

Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

 

o Member of Curriculum Committee          2021 – Present

Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

 

o Coordinator of Automation and Intelligent Systems Research Group         2017 – Present

Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

 

o Manager of Automatic Control Laboratory          2017 – Present

Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

 

o Member of Quality and Accreditation Committee (ABET and NCAAA)          2015 – Present

Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

 

o Assistant Professor           2014 – 2022

Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

 

o Assistant Professor           2013 – 2014

Department of Electrical Engineering, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.

 

o Teaching and Research Fellow           2011 – 2012

Grenoble INP (Grenoble Institute of Technology),

Engineering School in Cybersecure Intelligent Systems (ESISAR), Valence, France.

 

o Teaching and Research Fellow           2010 – 2011

University of Joseph Fourier (UJF), Polytech Grenoble, Grenoble, France.

 

o PhD Researcher           2007 – 2011

Doctoral School of Electronics, Electrical Energy, Automatic Control and Signal Processing (EEATS),

GIPSA-Lab (Grenoble Images, Speech, Signal and Control Lab), Department of Control Systems,

Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.

 

o Assistant Manager (R&D)           2004 – 2006

Department of Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC),

Pakistan Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission, Karachi, Pakistan.

 

Teaching Experience:

 

Graduate (MS & PhD) Courses:

 

o GE 501: Computer simulation of engineering systems           

o EE 551: Computer controlled systems

o EE 557: Linear systems

o EE 560: Advanced control techniques

o EE 562: Selected topics in control                                          

o EE 659: Advanced topics in computer and control

 

Undergraduate Courses:

 

o EE 208: Logic design                                                         

o EE 329: Signal analysis for surveying students

o EE 351: Automatic control                                                  

o EE 454: Advanced control systems

o EE 456: Automatic control applications                              

o EE 457: Applied control laboratory

o EE 483: Digital control systems                                          

o EE 496 / EE 497: Capstone design projects

 

Supervision of PhD / MS Theses:

 

PhD Theses:

o Thesis title: Development and Analysis of Cooperative Control for Multi-Agent Systems     (ongoing)

Student: Engr. Ali Maarouf

o Thesis title: Intelligent hysteresis control of piezo-actuated nanopositioning stage     (2023)

Student: Engr. Ayad Gaafar Baziyad

 

MS Theses:

o Thesis title: Development of source seeking algorithm for mobile robot     (2024)

   Student: Engr. Humaid Egab Najer Alotaibi

o  Thesis title: Modeling and control of a 3D micro/nanopositioning system for STM application     (2023)

    Student: Engr. Amro Emad Awad Ali

o Thesis title: Control design and assessment for a tractor-trailer system     (2022)

   Student: Engr. Abdullah M. Aldughaiyem

o   Thesis title: Hybrid fuzzy based robust control design for a micro and nano positioning system     (2021)

    Student: Engr. Hussain Kahil

o   Thesis title: Nonlinear observer based path tracking control of unmanned ground vehicles     (2020)

    Student: Engr. Emad Mahrous Awwad

o   Thesis title: Control of piezoelectric actuator in the presence of high frequency vibrations & plant uncertainties     (2019)

    Student: Engr. Mahmoud Saeed Ali

o  Thesis title: Design and control of a PV station for charging electric vehicles at work places     (2019)

    Student: Engr. Omotoso Hammed Olabisi

o   Thesis title: Dynamic modeling & advanced control design for a micro/nanopositioning system     (2017)

    Student: Engr. Akram Mohammed

o   Thesis title: Robust control of a variable speed wind turbine     (2014)

    Student: Engr. Younus Jamil

o   Thesis title: Analysis and control of a heat pump     (2012)

    Student: Engr. Fedric Blanvillain

 

Research Publications: 

 

[35] H. Kahil, I. Ahmad, and Y. B. Salamah, "Experimental analysis of fuzzy gain-scheduled PID controller with a feedforward compensator for an ultra-precise piezoactuated micropositioning stage", IEEE Access, vol. 13, 2025

[34] M.A. Morsy, H. Eqab, Y.B. Salamah and I. Ahmad, "Multi-robot movement based on a new modified source-seeking algorithm", Robotica, pp. 1-14, 2025

[33] A. Maarouf, Y.B. Salamah and I. Ahmad, "Decentralized control framework for optimum platoon spacing and energy efficiency", Electronics, vol. 14 (1), 169, 2025

32] A.G. Baziyad , I. Ahmad and Y.B. Salamah, "Precision motion control of a piezoelectric actuator via a modified Preisach hysteresis model and two-degree-of-freedom H-Infinity robust control", Micromachines, vol. 14 (6), 1208, 2023

[31] H. Eqab, Y.B. Salamah, I. Ahmad and M.A. Morsy, "Development of source seeking algorithm for mobile robots", Springer Intelligent Service Robotics, vol. 16, pp. 393-401, 2023

[30] A.G. Baziyad , I. Ahmad, Y.B. Salamah and A. Alkuhayli, "Robust tracking control of piezo-actuated nanopositioning stage using improved inverse LSSVM hysteresis model and RST controller", Actuators, vol. 11 (11), 324, 2022

[29] A. E. A. Ali, I. Ahmad and A.G. Baziyad, "Creep and hysteresis compensation with feedforward/feedback controller for an ultra-precise nanopositioning stage", IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Annual Online Conference, 2022

[28] A.G. Baziyad , I. Ahmad and A. E. A. Ali, "Generalization enhancement of operator-LSSVM-based hysteresis model using improved particle swarm optimization for piezoelectric actuators", IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Annual Online Conference, 2022

[27] A.G. Baziyad , A.S. Nouh, I. Ahmad and A. Alkuhayli, "Application of least-squares support-vector machine based on hysteresis operators and particle swarm optimization for modeling and control of hysteresis in piezoelectric actuators", Actuators, vol. 11 (8), 217, 2022

[26] M. Khan, M.R. Naeem, E.A. Ammar, W. Ko, H. Vettikalladi and I. Ahmad, "Power forecasting of regional wind farms via variational auto-encoder and deep hybrid transfer learning", MDPI Electronics, vol. 11 (2), 2022

[25] I. Ahmad, A. E. A. Ali and Y. B. Salamah, " MIMO H∞ feedback controller with feedforward compensator for Scanning Tunneling Microscope having 3D cross-coupled piezoelectric actuator," IEEE Access, vol. 9, 2021

[24] A. Aldughaiyem, Y. B. Salamah and I. Ahmad, “Control design and assessment for a reversing tractor–trailer system using a cascade controller”, MDPI Applied Sciences, 11(22), 10634, 2021

[23] H. Kahil, I. Ahmad, A. Nouh ,and Y. B. Salamah, “ Tracking control of a piezoelectric actuator with hysteresis compensation using fuzzy logic with feed-forward controller”, Global Congress on Electrical Engineering (GC-ElecEng), Valencia, Spain, 2021

[22] I. Ahmad, M. A. Ali and W. Ko, "Robust μ-synthesis with Dahl model based feedforward compensator design for piezo-actuated micropositioning stage," IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 141799-141813, 2020

[21] H.O. Omotoso, S.M. Alghuwainem & I. Ahmad, “Constant current fuzzy logic controller for grid connected electric vehicle charging”, IEEE International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO 2019), Manama, Bahrain, 2019

[20] M.A. Ali, I. Ahmad & H.O. Omotoso, “Robust tracking control of micro/nanopositioning stage with high frequency vibrations”, IEEE International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO 2019), Manama, Bahrain, 2019

[19] I. Ahmad, “Two degree-of-freedom robust digital controller design with Bouc-Wen hysteresis compensator for piezoelectric positioning stage”, IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp 17275 – 17283, 2018

[18] E. Mohammed, M. Krid & I. Ahmad, “Nonlinear side-slip angle observer design for fast off-road mobile robots”, 11th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (ICCSIT 2018), Paris, France, 2018

[17] M.Y. Naz, S.A. Sulaiman, Y. Khan, A. Ghaffar, Y. Jamil and I. Ahmad, "Study of particle dynamics in a swirling fluidized bed by using a mesh-type air distributor", Journal of Porous Media, vol. 21, issue 11, pp 1059 - 1068, 2018

[16] I. Ahmad & A. M. Abdurraqeeb, “Tracking control of a piezoelectric actuator with hysteresis compensation using RST digital controller”, Springer Microsystem Technologies, vol. 23, no. 6, pp 2307– 2317, 2017

[15] A.S. Khan, A. Ghaffar, M.Y. Naz, M. Azam, Y. Khan and I. Ahmad, "Synthesis of nickel-copper nanocrystalline ferrite adsorbents for treatment of textile effluents", Digest Journal of Nanomaterials and Biostructures, vol. 12, issue 2, pp. 235 - 242, 2017

[14] I. Ahmad, "MIMO H-infinity integral control design for 2D tunneling current measurement system: STM Application", Springer Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems, vol. 28, no. 1, pp 1 – 10, 2017

[13] I. Ahmad, A. M. Abdurraqeeb & W. Ahmad, “Modern H-infinity control design for ultra-precise micro/nanopositioning with hysteresis compensation”, IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition, Manama, Bahrain, 8 – 11 May, 2017

[12] M.Y. Naz, S.A. Sulaiman, S. Shukrullah, A. Ghaffar, Y. Khan and I. Ahmad, “PIV investigations on particle velocity distribution in uniform swirling regime of fluidization”, Springer Granular Matter, vol. 19, no. 40, 2017

[11] W. Ahmad, I. Ahmad & A. M. Abdurraqeeb, “Renewable energy in kingdom of Saudi Arabia: opportunities and prospects”, IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition, Manama, Bahrain, 8 – 11 May, 2017

[10] I. Ahmad & A. M. Abdurraqeeb, “H-infinity control design with feed-forward compensator for hysteresis compensation in piezoelectric actuators”, Taylor & Francis Automatika, vol. 57, no. 3, pp 691 – 702, 2016

[9] I. Ahmad, A. Voda & G. Besançon, “Controller design and analysis for high-performance STM”, MICRO, NANOSYSTEMS & SYSTEMS ON CHIPS, Modelling, Control and Estimation, International ISTE & WILEY Publication, pp 121 – 148, 2013 

[8] I. Ahmad, A. Voda, G. Besançon & G. Buche, “Robust digital control approach for high performance tunneling current measurement system”, Elsevier Control Engineering Practice, vol. 20, no. 7, pp 643 – 653, 2012 

[7] I. Ahmad, A. Voda, G. Besançon & G. Buche, “Tunneling current analysis over a nano-system experimental platform with H-infinity control”, European Journal of Automated Systems (JESA), vol. 46, no. 4 – 5, pp 507 – 534, 2012 

[6] I. Ahmad, A. Voda & G. Besançon, “Experimental validation of H-infinity SISO control for high performance tunneling current measurement system and MIMO extension”, IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC), Dubrovnik, Croatia, pp 581 – 586, 2012 

[5] I. Ahmad, A. Voda & G. Besançon, “Robust H-infinity control of a scanning tunneling microscope under parametric uncertainties”, IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), Baltimore, USA, pp 6555 – 6560, 2010 

[4] I. Ahmad, S. Blanvillain, A. Voda & G. Besançon, “Commande robuste H-infinity d’un microscope à effet tunnel en présence d’incertitudes paramétriques”, Conférence Internationale Francophone d’Automatique (CIFA), Nancy, France, 2010 

[3] I. Ahmad, A. Voda, G. Besançon, S. Blanvillain & G. Buche, “A nano-system platform for robust digital control”, Internationale Journées Démonstrateurs, Angers, France, 2010

[2] I. Ahmad, A. Voda & G. Besançon, “H-infinity controller design for high-performance scanning tunneling microscope”, IEEE International Conference on Decision & Control (CDC), Shanghai, China, pp 6058 – 6063, 2009 

[1] I. Ahmad, A. Voda & G. Besançon, “Controller design for a closed-loop scanning tunneling microscope”, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science & Engineering (CASE), Washington DC, USA, pp 971 – 976, 2008